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Damian Karlson

@sixfoot.dad
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Eyes up, Guardian. | Choose happy, and fight for it. | Tweets are mine, and not my employer’s. Actively anti-racist and anti-fascist. 👉 🤛 @vBrownBag.com co-producer Tech marketing & community at Platform9.com

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 11/08/2026
User groups come, user groups go (R.I.P. VTUG 🥲) Tomorrow (noon ET) on @vbrownbag.com: "How to Build a Thriving Tech Community" Manvendra runs AWS Cloud Club JECRC and we're getting into: - Common mistakes - Lessons learned - Practical takeaways Join us LIVE! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RduJ...
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 13/07/2026
Guardrails, RAG, and a Bedrock demo built for an exam @faye-ellis.bsky.social says is brutal Join us LIVE Wed on @vbrownbag.com (noon ET) "Responsible AI with Amazon Bedrock" + real talk on the AWS AI Dev Pro cert www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FKD...
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 07/07/2026
New @vbrownbag.com episode is UP: "Getting into Local AI (2/3)" with Du'An Lightfoot! "GPU memory math, agent architectures, observability, token economics — the stuff nobody explains until your bill arrives." youtu.be/WSalm-rvG2E
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 20/05/2026
Yelling at LLM Costs TONIGHT 8:30 PM ET Who's actually paying for all this AI? The @vbrownbag.com Gang talks about: 💸 Frontier model pricing 🖥️ Local models & hidden costs 🏢 What this means for enterprise budgets 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy_U... @sixfoot.dad @giftedlane.bsky.social
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 15/05/2026
Watching @whitneylee.com deliver a talk about using an AI agent as a coding assistant for developing an internal platform. She’s genuinely a great teacher!
Whitney kicking butt and taking names
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 15/05/2026
So awesome that @lookitup.baby came to Austin to speak at KCD Texas!
Ian Coldwater giving a talk at KCD Texas 2026
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 09/05/2026
The Doormaker does what they want
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 07/05/2026
Breaking Bad meme: “Jesse what the hell are you talking about?”
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 06/05/2026
When I was a kid, I wanted to go to space. Instead I am a man that makes sad noises when I wake up.
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 23/04/2026
How to tell when you’re done working for the day
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Mark Wragg @wragg.io · 18/04/2026
I'm pretty sure this is how it works
A meme of the moment from the Wizard of Oz where Dorothy discovers the Wizard is just a regular man behind a curtain. The caption reads "THE POWERSHELL PIPELINE" and the man behind the curtain is labelled "JEFFREY SNOVER"
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 03/04/2026
Microtonal math rock with a looper. It’s like King Gizzard, Tool, and Primus had an insane space baby. It’s the best thing I’ve heard in ages, and I’m obsessed.
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 29/03/2026
Foster dog doing a thing
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 26/02/2026
`winget upgrade --all` gives me joy. I'm a simple man.
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 22/02/2026
I’m pretty sure that Purgatory is sitting outside a Kohl’s fitting room while “What I Like About You” plays overhead
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 05/02/2026
“Why are there socks on the kitchen counter?” isn’t something I thought I’d ask my teenagers today
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 05/02/2026
Oh, Roger Ailes had some wisdom to impart huh 🙄
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 03/02/2026
Awesome!
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 03/02/2026
That sounds like 101.5 in Austin. It stopped finding new sounds around the late nineties and started replaying the same songs over and over. It’s just classic radio at this point. :/
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 17/01/2026
youtu.be/aU-dKoFZT0A
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Megadeth - A Tout Le Monde (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by megadethvevo
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Faye Ellis @faye-ellis.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Join me on January 29 to discuss the top in-demand skills for 2026, what every organization should be doing right now to stay competitive, where the tech industry is going in 2026, and how engineering teams can successfully navigate so much change! www.pluralsight.com/resources/we...
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 08/01/2026
I filled out the 2026 AWS survey. You should too! answersforaws.com/survey/
answersforaws.com
The 2026 Answers for AWS survey
Which AWS services are people interested in 🧐? Which do they like ✅? Which would they never use again 😡?
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 07/01/2026
This is just page views for jobs
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 07/01/2026
media.tenor.com
a man in a tuxedo is sitting in an auditorium
Alt: Shia Labeouf, in a tuxedo, is alone in an auditorium clapping furiously about what he just witnessed. Shia surprise!
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 06/01/2026
Many years ago, I had a pair of those white new balance sneakers. One day my dad came over and I realized I had the same shoes he did. I think I threw them out immediately after that.
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 30/12/2025
When I was a kid, we’d take our Canyonero to buy tomacco. Those were better days.
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Kavaeric ➡️ AC26 @kavaeric.net · 30/12/2025
Give your senior engineer and devops team a heart attack with this one weird trick
Screenshot of a Github pull request. It shows 1,403,369 new lines added and 2,205 lines removed.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Again,
My super modern regulatory plan is that any entity named for a thing from Tolkien has to publicly explain why Tolkien wouldn't immediately throw it into Mount Doom
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mcc @dryad.technology · 29/12/2025
The Second-Order Streisand Effect is a social phenomenon where if a party makes an effort to censor information, discussion and news about the censorship paradoxically leads to an increased awareness of Barbara Streisand, a musician whom most "Zoomers" would probably have otherwise never heard of
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 29/12/2025
Average NFL TV experience: - Side effects include diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting - Consider betting right now! - Holiday car commercial - Kevin Hart selling phones or betting - May cause serious side effects, including cancer - Zoe Saldana selling booze or phones
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 29/12/2025
I read this right before a “outraces Montez Sweat” was called
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 27/12/2025
It’s all fun and games until your youngest boy teenager randomly announces “my neck, my back…” Just to press buttons. That’s the only reason.
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 21/12/2025
Rapists who also hit their own teenage daughters in the face should get more than one punch, IMO.
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 18/12/2025
Be ungovernable.
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 17/12/2025
How your email finds me
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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 15/12/2025
That’s awesome!
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CCMF Trains @ccmftrains.com · 15/12/2025
Here's a fun project. One of my friends has written a Python wrapper for all of the Lionel TMCC/LCS command sets, which gives us the ability to build custom physical *and* digital controllers. Here's a RPi with a 10in touchscreen that can toggle the power to all of my blocks. So many possibilites!
A basic digital UI showing the names of power districts that can be controlled directly.
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 14/12/2025
There’s truck rentals at Home Depot or Lowe’s, or U-Haul…not a turnkey service though
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 13/12/2025
No it just kinda sucks.
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 12/12/2025
Ever been through CDG?
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 09/12/2025
I don’t, but my dog Wrex might
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 09/12/2025
Me, talking to a relative 25 years ago: “You don’t have functional A/C in your car because your friends huffed all the Freon out of it? WTAF”
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 09/12/2025
Dude it’s been so cold in my house. The adults that run the place refuse to make it warmer and I don’t know why
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 05/12/2025
Beautiful
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CCMF Trains @ccmftrains.com · 04/12/2025
For the train people who need landscape video. Let's go. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxM-...
youtube.com
Lionel Post War Inspired 21in Passenger Cars with Vision 700E Hudson #5344
YouTube video by CCMF Trains
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 04/12/2025
Coal powered wagons. It’s what America craves.
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 04/12/2025
Just about every morning I wake up and say “no, I don’t want to” but no one listens
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 04/12/2025
Are they gonna ban seatbelts next?
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